Francis Pelzer WIGHTMAN

a.k.a. Francis P. Wightman

compiler, illustrator, painter


b. January 26, 1874, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
[1][2][3][5]

d. June 23, 1916, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
interment: Jun 24, 1916
Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore
[3][4]

parents:

John Thomas WIGHTMAN
b. Sep 9, 1825, Charleston, South Carolina
d. Mar 3, 1915, Baltimore, Maryland

m. Feb 11, 1857, Sumter, South Carolina

Amelia Wilson SPAIN
b. Aug 20, 1836
Sumter, Cokesbury Abbevi, South Carolina
d. Mar 3, 1910, Baltimore, Maryland
[1][2][5]

siblings:

Clarence Albert, Arthur Clarence, John Pinckney, Albert Spain, Anne Eliza
[1][2][5]

membership:

Charcoal Club of Baltimore[3][4]

residence:

Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina (1880)[1]
~1884 -> Baltimore, Maryland (1910)[2]

bibliography:

Jingle, Jangle, Jumbly Lays In De Good Old Cottony Days: [...], New York, J. F. Taylor & Co., 1899

Little Leather Breeches, and other Southern Rhymes: [...], New York, J. F. Taylor & Co., 1899

A Chicago Princess, Robert Barr (1849-1912), New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1904

Mammy 'mongst the Wild Nations of Europe, Ruthella Bernard Mory Bibbins (1865-1942),
New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1904

The Tempestuous Petticoat, Robert Barr (1849-1912), London, Methuen, 1905

The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile, Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) (anonymously),
Philadelphia, Edward Stern & Co., 1907 (1908)

Teddy-B and Teddy-G: The Bear Detectives, Seymour Eaton (1859-1916),
William K. Sweeny (~1877-?) (co-illustrator), Philadephia, Edward Stern & Co., 1909

sources:

1 1880 United States Federal Census, via familysearch.org
2 1910 United States Federal Census, via familysearch.org
3 Emma Jane Wightman, via genealogy.com
4 The Baltimore Sun, Jun 26, 1916, p. 8, via prattlibrary.org
5 familysearch.org